Washable Workwear Wednesday: Dandelion-Stripe Ruffle-Shoulder Button Shell
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Sales of note for 5/8/25
(See all of the latest workwear sales at Corporette!)
- Nordstrom – Up to 50% off select styles + 15% off fragrance (exclusions apply; ends 5/11) + give $150 in gift cards, earn a $25 promo card (ends 5/13)
- Ann Taylor – 30% off your full-price purchase + extra 40% off sale
- Banana Republic Factory – 40-60% everything + extra 25% off
- Eloquii – $25+ select styles + extra 45% off all sale
- J.Crew – Up to 50% off must-have styles + extra 50% off select sale styles
- J.Crew Factory – Up to 60% off everything + extra 50% off clearance
- M.M.LaFleur – Try code CORPORETTE15 for 15% off
- Spanx – Lots of workwear on sale, some up to 70% off
- Talbots – 25% off all tops, pants, jeans, and shorts + 25% off all markdowns
And — here are some of our latest threadjacks of interest – working mom questions asked by the commenters!!
- The concept of “backup care” is so stupid…
- I need tips on managing employees in BigLaw who have to leave for daycare pickup…
- I’m thinking of leaning out to spend more time with my family – how can I find the perfect job for that?
- I’m now a SAHM and my husband needs to step up…
- How can I change my thinking to better recognize some of my husband’s contributions as important, like organizing the shed?
- What are your tips to having a good weekend with kids, especially with little kids? Do you have a set routine or plan?
What brands/styles are your six year old girls wearing? My kiddo is in this weird place where she’s too big for toddler brands and styles, but I can’t really bring myself to buy things from Justice/Aerie yet.
She used to wear a lot of Hanna Anderson/Tea collection/Gap casual dresses + leggings. Gap seems to still work but the other brands are awfully preschool-y? Maybe this is because I also have a preschooler that is wearing them? ;). For summer she rocked a lot of denim shorts/skirts + t shirt (mostly from target). She doesn’t really like jeans, and t shirt + leggings isn’t really an outfit.
Looking for inspiration! I have 3 girls so I’m fine with higher cost/higher quality pieces.
Toddler-friendly butternut squash suggestions?
My toddler picked out butternut squash at the grocery store yesterday (already cubed, so easy). I have low expectations that she will eat it. However, I was already planning to make dinner with her after daycare today, so I’m hoping involving her in the prep will increase odds she’ll at least try it without too much coaxing. Any suggestions for cooking it?
Favorite inexpensive tops for hiding your pregnancy at work (I work in a casual office, so pretty much anything other than athleisure goes)? Most of my existing work wardrobe is slim cut and highlights my waist, which does not work well when you trying to hide the fact that you’re holding your pants together with a rubber band at 10.5 weeks pregnant. Getting dressed is getting really challenging but I’d like to keep this under wraps for at least another month or so, if possible.
Piggybacking off the thread above, someone turned my super sweet almost 4 year old into an emotional mess. I naively thought we escaped 3 without too much threenager angst (of course he has had his moments of tantrums, not listening, etc., but generally he has been sweet and loving and kind and amazing this past year). Wrong. We’re a month away from turning 4, and he’s suddenly a wreck about everything. And it’s so difficult to know how to handle it because his emotional wants and needs seem to change hourly. Sigh. In comparison, my 2 year old’s typical 2-year old tantrums, while grating, seem so easy to address.
Any advice from you experienced moms on how to handle?
someone stole my super sweet baby and turned her into an opinionated, boundary testing 16 month old! she thinks it is fun to pull my hair and say “ow” and the word “no” (which i try to use sparingly) makes her laugh
Our town is not particularly diverse. My daughter just started kindergarten and there is a girl in her class who doesn’t speak English (very much/at all). Apparently, the teacher speaks a TINY bit of the student’s language, but there is a lot of gesturing and learning on the fly. When we get class emails, they are sent in English with either a link to google translate or in some cases (like very critical information) they are translated and there is an attachment in the student’s family language. Based on this, I/we assume that the parents do not speak much English, either.
My daughter is having a birthday party and wants to invite all the girls in her class, including this student. We sent e-vites (the school does not allow invitations to be sent home), and this student is the only one who hasn’t received/opened the invite (the e-vite program tells you who has opened it). Is there a way I can follow up to make sure the family knows she’s invited? I have emailed the parents twice before (once to invite the daughter to a playdate we were having before school started, and once to see if they had missed the email invitation) but have never gotten a response.
And separately, any suggestions on how to include this girl / help my daughter and her friends include her? Neither parent attended the open house, which is a bummer because a few other parents and I were hoping to meet them. Or, do we just back off and assume they will respond if they are interested?
Is this the sort of thing I can reach out to the teacher about, or is that super invasive? I was thinking I could say “my kiddo would love to get to know (KID) better, do you have any suggestions?” According to my kid the girl plays by herself in the classroom or only with her older brother at recess.
for those of you who either have a big job or a DH or partner with a big job or if you or your partner travels a lot (basically if one of you does a lot more solo parenting than the other), how do you divide things up when you are both home? my DH travels a lot and i get resentful and i seem to feel that when he is home he should do a lot more of the heavy lifting – change more diapers (we have twins – so 2 kids in diapers), clean up both the toys and food after dinner, etc. because i have to do it all by myself all of the time. I am still there with him so he has another adult to talk to, but i feel like i need to try to reframe this because I don’t know that it is totally fair to him as it’s not exactly like he is sipping drinks by the pool at a resort when he isn’t at home
What can I bring to a daycare potluck that is moderately healthy that I can buy at a grocery store ( a regular store like Safeway, no fancy grocery stories in my town)? My go-to potluck food is brownies from the Ghirardelli boxed mix, but somehow I feel like the other parents would not appreciate that…